Birmingham reduces med errors with PICS
University Hospitals of Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has said that an electronic prescribing system it developed could be preventing up to 146,000 potential medication errors a year.
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Scarborough’s RealTime discharge
Scarborough and North Yorkshire NHS Care Trust has become the first in the UK to go-live with a discharge plan and decision support product from RealTime Health. The trust, which signed the deal in October and began roll-out at the beginning of May, recently completed the deployment. Jim Gabriel, chief executive of RealTime told E-Health […]
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Moving on up
Sarah Bruce visits Birmingham to see how Britain’s newest and biggest hospital is planning to use IT.
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Data published as Whitehall is reviewed
The Department of Health has confirmed that BT’s new local service provider deal for London is one of the contracts that will be reviewed by the new government to ensure value for money. A joint Treasury and Cabinet Office Efficiency and Reform Group, led by Paymaster General Francis Maude, is examining all new contracts worth […]
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Birmingham PICS CSE as partner
Birmingham Systems PICS (Prescribing Information and Communications System), developed by staff at the city’s University Hospitals, is now available to other healthcare providers following an implementation partnership agreement with CSE Healthcare Systems. The system, which was on show at the Informatics Congress 2010 in Birmingham last week, not only provides an electronic prescribing and medicines […]
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DH launches hospital comparison site
The Department of Health has launched a new comparison element to the NHS Choices website, which allows patients to compare hospitals on indicators from car parking to mortality rates. The service provides a web-based score card to help patients choose the hospital most suited to their needs. It works in a similar way to other internet […]
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Anderson: ‘prepare for more viruses’
A well-known IT security expert has told E-health Insider that hospitals need to accept that viruses exist and has urged them to be better prepared for attacks. Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University, told EHI: “Hospitals need to design systems on the understanding that viruses exist, just like hospitals are built on […]
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Dr Foster takes on NHS Choices
Health information provider Dr Foster has launched an alternative site to NHS Choices. The company, which lost out in the bid to run the DH flagship site, today launched Drfosterhealth.co.uk, which brings together information from its consumer guides to hospitals, consultants, birth and complementary therapists. The website aims to be “the complete online medical guide […]
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Dudley uses Soarian to identify infections
Nurses at Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust are using the workflow engine embedded in Siemens’ Soarian electronic patient record system to rapidly identify and isolate patients with infections such as MRSA. Soarian interfaces with existing patient administration and departmental support systems. The workflow engine allows administrative and clinical processes to be synchronised across departments, […]
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